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New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brai...

As we get closer and closer to something that is unequivocally an artificial intelligence, engineers have tackled another aspect of this; ho...

A friend and long-time loyal reader of Skeptophilia  tagged me in a post on Facebook a couple of days ago, with a link and the single line ...

When  The Polar Express  hit the theaters in 2004, it had a rather unexpected effect on some young movie-goers. The train conductor, who (...

The old quip says that true artificial intelligence is twenty years in the future -- and always will be. I'm beginning to wonder about...

I find the human mind baffling, not least because the way it is built virtually guarantees that the most logical, rational, and dispassionat...

Today in the news is a story about the creation of a robot named "Kaspar" at the University of Hertfordshire, whose purpose is to ...